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• Giving up on the community

  I know nobody reads my blog anyway, but I still feel the need to comment (rant) to the blogosphere. The back story goes like this. Joel Spoelsky said some pretty irresponsible things in an interview, calling SOLID principles bureaucratic and saying "... Posted Feb 14 2009, 08:34 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development, Agile, OOP

• Found some good code today

  I'm hoping this won't offend any of you out there, but most of us developers write crappy code. I'm not fully sure why this is, but even if the database isn't a steaming pile of horse poo, the code usually is. There's often a lot of... Posted Dec 21 2008, 04:01 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Agile, OOP, O/R Mapping, Databases

• TDD + Resharper Payoff - Refactoring

  So the project i mentioned the other day in my last post has had minimal need for refactoring. Part of that is because I'm such a super badass developer who always gets things right the first time (yeah right), and part of it is that the project is... Posted Dec 11 2008, 05:36 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development, Agile

• My current architecture

  For the six or seven of you in the world that actually read my blog, you've noticed that i've been pretty quiet lately. So while i'm chomping down breakfast before work, I thought I'd give you a rundown on what i've been doing lately... Posted Dec 10 2008, 08:22 AM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development, Agile, News, OOP, O/R Mapping, Sql Server, Databases

• ASP.NET Sucks and It DOES Matter

  This is partially in response to this somewhat infamous article by Jeff Atwood: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001119.html In this Jeff mentions that although PHP as a language and platform sucks, it doesn’t matter. Its low barrier to entry... Posted Aug 03 2008, 08:13 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development, Agile, OOP

• Lessons Learned From the WAM Charity Event

  I just got back from the WAM charity event that i mentioned in an earlier post. I want to again thank everyone on my team for all their hard work. It was also amazing to see what the other teams had built in such a short timeframe, sometimes with only... Posted Jan 21 2008, 02:23 PM by Software Theosophy Filed under: General Programming, Web Development, Agile, News